Switchzilla CEO Chuck Robbins and Gary Steele – who went to bed on Sunday as Splunk's CEO and on Monday became a Cisco executive vice president and general manager of Splunk – together"Over the next several months, we intend to incorporate Cisco's Talos threat intelligence into Splunk," the pair wrote.
The duo also teased plans"to enable Splunk's market-leading SIEM and SOAR platform to utilize cloud, network, and endpoint analytics available from Cisco's security portfolio, enabling new ways for customers to detect, investigate, and respond to threats that can only be identified via lateral movement in the network.
"We will drive new innovations with a unified data platform that integrates application, fraud, network, multi-cloud, security, user, and other data sources to address cyber, technical, and business risks throughout the entire portfolio," they added. Those plans call for the combined entity to"continue our extensive use, support, and contribution to the open source community such as OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and more.